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• Course Type: Instructor-led
• Format: Video, Online
• Length: Four weeks
• Subject: Portrait Photography
• Instructor: Candice Stringham
• Difficulty: Intermediate

Because Candice wishes to deliver individualized and personalized instruction for each student, the course class size will be very limited. The October 2009 session of this class is full, but another session will be available soon if you don't get in this time. You can click the notify me link above to be sent an email when registration opens again.

We know that the people we love (yes, the same ones that we lovingly create layouts about) are special, unique, and wonderful. We know that when we click our shutters, we want to capture their awesome personality and appearance and let these shine through the photos we shoot. Now if only we knew exactly how to work our cameras so that when that precious moment arises, we are able to capture what we see in front of us, express how it moves us, and preserve it forever on a photograph.

Enter Photographing People: Portraiture 101 with Candice Stringham! For four intensive weeks, join Candice as she leads you on a journey towards taking better photos of your family and friends.

Here is a quick run-through of what to expect from the course:

• In the first week, you’ll learn about the basic elements of portraits so that you can maximize this knowledge to its fullest potential each time you photograph your loved ones.
• In the second week, you’ll learn how to shoot portraits with natural light.
• In the third week, you’ll be given tips and techniques for photographing subjects from different age groups, including how to ensure that your subjects are comfortable and natural, how to pose them, and how to look for the best locations to shoot in.
• In the fourth week, you’ll learn how to photograph couples, families, and group portraits.

Throughout the 4 weeks of the course you’ll receive:

• step-by-step video tutorials that will allow you to see and hear the techniques as you learn. These videos will be available forever from your course homepage at jessicasprague.com, even after the course ends.
• a comprehensive lesson and assignment for each week
• an email from Candice 5 days a week for all four weeks, with encouragement, coupons, and inspiration
• access to a private class message board where you can ask questions and chat with other participants about portrait photography as well as everything under the sun
• a weekly live-chat session so Candice can answer questions about the lesson and assignment
• access to the class image gallery, where you can upload your lesson photographs and get praise and feedback from other students

Plus! Three of the weeks you will turn in photographs that will be personally critiqued by the instructor!

Course Prerequisites

Because this is an intermediate photography class, you should have already taken the Oh Shoot! Photography class, or have a working knowledge of how to use your camera on manual mode.

About the Instructor

Candice Stringham is an editorial photographer-turned-scrapbooker. She is a Contributing Editor for Creating Keepsakes Magazine and was inducted into the Creating Keepsakes Hall of Fame in 2006. Candice holds a BFA in Photography and taught at the collegiate level after she graduated. She is thrilled to be giving this new class at Jessica's website because teaching people how to use their cameras is one of her greatest joys! Adventurous but down-to-earth, Candice loves to read, watch old movies and musicals, read anything Jane Austen and create fun projects and traditions with her family. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her two sons and actor husband.

Blog - www.candicestringham.typepad.com

Registration:

Registration will begin Monday October 19th at 9:00pm eastern time.

Class dates:

Class runs from Monday October 26th through November 21st 2009. Just in time for all those family holiday photographs!

NOTE: Because Candice wants to personalize the instruction for this course, class size is very limited for this session.

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